The geometry of Paul Molitor’s beauty, which left him no choice but baseball

Theorem:  Paul Molitor was beautiful – too beautiful to be anything but an artist.  Proof: His is the forename of a man blinded by miracles, but Paul Molitor’s glowing blue Dropa stones Have no such frailties.Parisian arrondissements are piled deep within Those … Continue reading The geometry of Paul Molitor’s beauty, which left him no choice but baseball

A consideration of Boileryard Clark’s mien and essence followed swiftly by a reconsideration of Boileryard Clarke’s mien and essence

Man named Boileryard, You have risen above things, But never shall you be above Slipping into the accent of A tenement Catholic Who brawls over black bread, Who between bouts of daylight Wanders over the brick-strewn lot Where the tobacconist’s burned down, … Continue reading A consideration of Boileryard Clark’s mien and essence followed swiftly by a reconsideration of Boileryard Clarke’s mien and essence

A poem about Max Scherzer’s 1926 funeral Mass in Chicago and a brief and frankly daft philosophical essay addressing why there’s such thing as a poem about the 1926 Chicago funeral Mass of Max Scherzer, who in reality is thankfully alive and well and was born in 1984

When we ponder death, we console ourselves with the knowledge that we weren’t around 40, 50, 80 years prior and were not then troubled by that prevailing oblivion. Why, then, should future oblivion bedevil us? The poet Philip Larkin, among … Continue reading A poem about Max Scherzer’s 1926 funeral Mass in Chicago and a brief and frankly daft philosophical essay addressing why there’s such thing as a poem about the 1926 Chicago funeral Mass of Max Scherzer, who in reality is thankfully alive and well and was born in 1984

Willie McCovey can drive from here to anyplace else in no more than two hours and 48 minutes

Willie McCovey has long believed that The cartographers are blind to possibility. Their learned embroideries bring out The interstates, the arterial highways with The color of the northern cardinal in nesting season. The remainder they leave to less arresting hues. … Continue reading Willie McCovey can drive from here to anyplace else in no more than two hours and 48 minutes